Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:16:11 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 18:15 -0800, Jun Sun wrote: > I am trying to reserve a block of memory (>16MB) starting from 0 and hide it > from kernel. A consequence is that DMA zone now has size 0. That causes > many drivers to grief (OOMs). > > I see two ways out: > > 1. Modify individual drivers and convince them not to alloc with GFP_DMA. > I have been trying to do this but do not seem to see an end of it. :) > > 2. Simply lie and increase MAX_DMA_ADDRESS to really big (like 1GB) so that > the whole memory region belongs to DMA zone. > > #2 sounds pretty hackish. I am sure something bad will happen > sooner or later (like what?). But so far it appears to be working fine. > > The fundamental question is: Has anybody tried to run Linux without 0 sized > DMA zone before? Am I doing something that nobody has done before (which is > something really hard to believe these days with Linux :P)?
on a PC there are still devices that need memory in the lower 16Mb..... (like floppy)
Maybe you should reserve another area of memory instead!
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